In League of Legends the international tournament “MSI” is taking place. For the 25-year-old jungler Croc, the LoL tournament couldn’t have started worse: He forgot to buy items and was the only one who didn’t realize it. Twitch streamer Caedrel, who witnessed the misery, could hardly take it.
This was the situation:
- Croc is a 25-year-old South Korean who plays for the Brazilian LoL team “Loud”.
- Currently, the international tournament MSI is taking place – with the best players in the world. Croc faced the European players from G2 with Loud in the second game of the tournament. Both teams have to go through the play-ins to face Faker and the big boys in the tournament.
- But the jungler Croc forgot to buy his starter items in the first match.
Pro player doesn’t realize for 2 minutes that he has no items
This is what happened: The Twitch streamer Caedrel, who was commenting on the match, completely lost it on stream when he noticed Croc’s mistake. Caedrel empathizes, shouting at the monitor, pleading that someone from Loud must just press “Tab”. Surely, someone must notice this:
“Yo, Croc, Croc! You have no items. No, no, no. Not in the first game of an international tournament – not like this. NO NO Please!”
One of the official casters quietly notices: “I don’t want to raise the alarm, but Croc has no items.”
Meanwhile, Caedrel is nearly dying in his chair, watching the situation in agony and calling out, “Oh no, Croc doesn’t even know that he has no items.”
How did the situation progress? Opponent Yike goes straight for the Red Buff and duels with Croc and his teammate for the buff. Croc managed to actually grab the Red Buff with Smite, but he notices that he is not leveling up as he normally would.
This is the moment, 2 minutes into the match, when he realizes that he hasn’t bought any items.
The face is then quite shocked.
The moment you realize you’ve made the absolute noob mistake:
Why is this so rare? The strange thing about the situation is that for 2 minutes neither Croc nor his teammates noticed. Normally, LoL players constantly press “Tab” and check the status of everyone in the game . Faker is known for this. Here, however, no one noticed it.
Even the jungler himself noticed far too late that he was dealing little damage; it seems that the nerves of participating in such a big tournament played a part.
Some users also say: In SoloQ, this would have been immediately noticed because “no one trusts anyone else” and everyone checks each other.
In any case, this was fun for the whole family:
Was he able to recover? Yes, indeed. Croc managed to recover from the shock and even secured the First Blood.
The series then clearly went 0-2 to the Europeans from GG. For game 1, G2 needed 33 minutes; that was pretty close. Game 2 was then won by G2 in 20 minutes.
The viewers on reddit say: We saw both types of G2. The weak ones with “Craps” and the strong ones with “Claps”.
The mid laner of G2 is known for playing strong sometimes, weak other times. But usually, he buys his items.
One of the best players in LoL totally fails – People love him even more
